Colorado’s Democratic Party delegation to Congress is joining critics of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his top advisers and Cabinet members.

“So far, the news and rumors have been disquieting – especially for people across the country who have been engaged in promoting civil rights, a cleaner environment, sustainable energy and better health care,” Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Denver) said in a statement.

She was joined in her criticisms of Stephen Bannon, Trump’s chief White House strategist and senior counselor, by Sen. Michael Bennet and representatives Ed Perlmutter (D-Arvada) and Jared Polis (D-Boulder). The Colorado Democrats directed some of their top criticism at Bannon.

“Mr. Trump’s decision to hire Steve Bannon – who has a history of promoting racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic propaganda – sends a terrible message to our country,” Bennet said in a Facebook post. “The President-elect should reconsider his decision to place such a divisive figure in this role.”

DeGette also criticized Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who was nominated by Trump as the next U.S. attorney general, for his reputed history of ethnic slurs.

Republican members of Congress, including Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs), say critics should give the Trump team a chance before hurling accusations at them.

“I have been impressed with the seriousness and diligence that the president-elect is showing in filling his administration,” Lamborn told The Colorado Statesman. “His appointments so far have been an accomplished group of people who appear eager to serve the nation.”

He downplayed risks that any Trump appointees might inflame ethnic tensions.

“I believe that the president-elect is selecting people who will work hard on behalf of all Americans,” Lamborn said.

Meanwhile, as of press time, a Colorado Republican appears to be a top candidate to become the next secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez of Lafayette has spoken to the media, saying he is being considered for the job. No date is set for Trump to announce the Interior chief appointment.

Beauprez served Colorado’s 7th congressional district in Congress from 2003 to 2007.

Liberal activists who participated in recent protests near the White House accuse appointees like Bannon of being white nationalists.

Bannon is chairman of the right-wing Breitbart News and a former Naval officer.

The Colorado Democratic representatives signed on to a letter that was sent by 169 members of Congress to Trump warning him about Bannon.

“As the executive chairman of Breitbart News, Mr. Bannon repeatedly and aggressively pushed stories that promote anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism,” the letter from House members said. “During an interview last summer, Mr. Bannon bragged that Breitbart was ‘the platform of the alt-right,’ a movement that upholds white nationalism while strongly rejecting diversity in any form.

“Under Mr. Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart has referred to a leading Republican who opposed your election as a ‘renegade Jew,’ suggested ‘young Muslims in the West are a ticking time bomb,’ declared that ‘the Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage’ and praised the alt-right as a ‘smarter’ version of ‘old school racist skinheads.'”

DeGette used similar accusations to refer to Sessions, who the Senate rejected as a federal judge during the Reagan administration because of his reputation for racism.

Last week, Senate Republicans said they would move quickly to confirm Sessions’ appointment as attorney general.

Sessions’ confirmation depends on a vote in the Senate, where he is expected to win majority support among the heavily Republican senators.

Democrats, like DeGette, are less enthusiastic about him.

“As the president’s top adviser on matters of law and justice, the man or woman in this position must possess a firm commitment to civil rights,” DeGette said. “However, Senator Sessions’ regressive record on immigration, LGBT equality and civil liberties, along with his shocking comments on the NAACP and the KKK, make him unequivocally unfit to serve in this role.”

Sessions has been a strong advocate of tougher immigration policies, which includes greater restrictions on visas and more deportations of illegal immigrants.

Trump’s appointments are continuing this week.

Another reputed hardliner added to the list last week was retired Marine General James Mattis as defense secretary. He is expected to lead Trump’s efforts to combat Islamic terrorism.

Mattis has said that “political Islam” is a major threat to national security and that the U.S. government lacks an effective strategy to manage Middle Eastern military risks.

His confirmation by Congress is expected to be complicated by a federal law that forbids appointees from becoming a defense secretary if they served in the military in the past seven years. Mattis retired three years ago.

Congress would need to approve an exception to the law for him.

Other Trump appointments are less controversial.

They include former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to become the transportation secretary; Seema Verma, a healthcare company executive, to become administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Nevertheless, the criticism of Trump’s appointments extends far beyond Colorado.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) blasted the president-elect’s choice of financier Steven Mnuchin to head the Treasury Department.

Mnuchin formerly oversaw trading in government securities and mortgage bonds for Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs.

Warren referred to the recession that started in 2008 during a CNN interview last week when she said, “What happened is that Wall Street bankers crashed the economy, they got bailed out and nobody went to jail, and that made the American people really, really serious. They’re still angry about it.”

She added, “What Donald Trump is doing is he’s literally handing the keys to the Treasury over to a Wall Street banker who helped cause the crash.”